Method of threading slotted plates.



R. E. RUSSEY.

METHOD OF THREADING SLOTTED PLATES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 29,1914.

1 1 92,939. Patented Aug, 1, 1916.

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ROE ELWOOD BUSSEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB T PIONEER SUSPENDER COIYIPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1916.

Application filed October 29, 1914. Serial No. 869,177.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Ron ELwooD RUssEY, a citizen of the United States, residin at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelp iia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Method of Threading Slotted Plates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved method of threading a flexible band through the slots of a metallic plate, such, for example, as a button plate for a garter, and also to improved means for effecting such method.

Referring to the drawings, which illustrate, merely by way of example, suitable embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a button plate used in connection with garters. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same device with the slot margins in the form of extensions struck out from the plane of the plate, in order to receive the flexible band. Fig. 3 is a similar view with the flexible band in position. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the underside of the button plate with said extensions pressed back to normal or operative position with the band threaded through the slots thereof. Fig. 5 is a front perspective view of the button plate with the band threaded therethrough and folded back to cover the underside of the button plate.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The button plate 6 as shown in Fig. 1 is provided with a rubber button 7 secured thereto and with the arc-shaped slots 8 therein. This button plate is of the usual formation, except that the extensions 9, forming the outer margins of the slots 8, are severed or slitted, as at 10, midway the two ends of said extension. These extensions 9 are then struck out of the plane of said plate 6 thus forming the projecting arms 11 as clearly shown in Fig. 2. While in this position the flexible band 12 is inserted between the flanking arms 11 against the underside of plate 6, as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The arms 11 are then pressed back to the normal or operative position as shown in Fig. 4, forming the extensions 9 which bound the outer sides of the slots 8. It will thus be seen that in the position shown in Fig. 4 the band 12 is threaded through slots 8. The band 12 is then brought around back of the plate 6, to cover the underside thereof, and is shown, as stitched as at 13, forming the button member of the hose supporting structure.

As is well known, the usual way of threading a band through such a slotted plate is by inserting the end of the band through one slot 8 and carrying it around the underside of the plate and up through the other slot 8. This is a tedious operation and consumes considerable time, which is an element of very distinct expense when thousands of such devices are made. When the operator or assembler however is provlded with a device having the arms 11 struck-up in position, as shown in Fig. 2, it is a very simple matter to insert the band therebetween, as shown in Fig. 3, in a single operation, and by a suitable pressing means,

such for example, as a foot-operated machine press, the band can be threaded in the plate as shown in Fig. 4, very rapidly indeed, thus substantially reducing the expense of assembling the garter.

It will be understood of course, that in the present methods of pressed metal work, the device, such as the button plate illustrated in the drawings, can be furnished to the assembling operator, just as cheaply in the form shown in Fig. 2, as in the old form, as shown in Fig. 1, without the slits 10.

Another advantage of the construction and method herein disclosed, is that in the old fashioned way it was practically im-- possible to thread a band through the slots when the band was wider than the extension of the slot. By the present means and method a band considerably wider than the longitudinal extension of the slot can be forced between the arms 11, and when the arms are pressed back into position as shown in Fig. 4 the band 12 will extend in width somewhat beyond the longitudinal extent of the slots and thus form a more complete covering for the underside of plate 6. In the example of plate illustrated, the slots 8 are shown as slightly arc-shaped. Obviously these slots may be perfectly straight, or in the form of even more pronounced arcs.

In the example illustrated, the slotted plate is shown as a button supporting plate. Obviously the invention is equally applicable to a wide variety of slotted plates.

What I claim is The method of threading slotted plates band around one of said vmarginal portions 19 Which consists in severing the portlons and securing the folded part to the adjacent forming the outer marglns of the slots about band extenslon near the outer margin of the midway and bending up said severed porplate.

tions into an 'ular position With respect to the plane of the plate, inserting between ROE ELWOOD S said bent-up portions a flexible band re- Witnesses:

MAE HOFMANN,

turning said bent-up portions to-the plane EUGENE ZIEGLER, Jr.

of the plate and then folding a part of the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

